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"Ready?" I asked with a smile

She nodded with the enthusiasm of a small child and held her aro then"

After we ate, we grabbed a cup of coffee at Mozart’s, and then we headed to the club for so I had to sy than the daet a drink when "Walking on Air" by Katy Perry started playing

Courtney ju!"

The next thing I kneere back out on the dance floor, dancing She certainly could dance, and throughout the song, three different guys tried to cut in With one go-to-hell look, they each quickly left

By the time we left the club, Courtney finally seemed happy This last week, she had buried herself in work and reading, and she’d hardly spoken tords to et a word in I hadn’t laughed so much in my life as I did on the ride horeeted by Midnight and Lulu We both looked at each other and said, "Oh shit!"

"You didn’t crate them!" Courtney said in a panicked voice

Wait, what? "Me? I’," I said as I held up my hands and quickly looked around the house Oh fuck If they chewed up anything, Layton will have our asses

"You check upstairs I’ll check down here," Courtney said as she took off her shoes She started running around with Lulu right behind her

"Gotcha!" I said as I made my way upstairs

Every door had been shut, except for the second irliest shriek when I walked in and saw one of ht ran in and went right for the boot He picked it up and practically threw it at rabbed on to the door to hold myself up My boots…oh God…he chewed up my boot

"What? What was that noise? It sounded like you stepped on a cat’s tail or so!" Courtney said as she skidded to a stop and ran into me

I pointed to my boot "My…my…my boot That bastard ate my boot…my favorite boots" I put my hands on asp "Oh…oh, Midnight, you bad boy You didn’t That is unforgivable You got his boots Oh My God! My shoes!" With that, she took off running back downstairs, screaain

When I heard her bloodcurdling screaht ducked and ran out of the rooot worried I ran downstairs and into Layton’s rooun

"Where in the hell did you get a gun?" I asked, confused as hell

"Whit toldto kill them both Get out of ns of torn up shoes "Court, wait The dogs? You’re gonna kill the dogs? Why?" I tried to take the gun from her

She shook her head, and I swore I could see stea is loaded because I’ to kill both those rabbed it "Jesus, Courtney You never, ever handle a gun if you don’t knohat you are doing or if it’s loaded" I checked the chamber, and it wasn’t loaded Thank God